Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 28
Here she was able, from her frog nature, to dip and dive about in the water of the deep well, until at last she would climb forth like a cat, and come back into the hall dripping with water, so that the green leaves that were strewed on the floor were whirled round, and carried away by the streams that flowed from her.
Who acts: Viking, hall, streams · What happens: be, dip, dive, climb, come back, drip · To what, where: frog nature, hall, green leaves, floor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Viking, hall, streams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 able | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nature | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 nature | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nature | nmod:poss |
| 8 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nature | compound |
| 9 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 able | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dip | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dip | mark |
| 12 | dip | dip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dive | cc |
| 14 | dive | dive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 dip | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 dive | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dive | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 well | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 well | det |
| 21 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 well | amod |
| 22 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 water | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 last | punct |
| 24 | until | until | ADP | _ | 26 last | case |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 last | case |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dip | conj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 climb | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 climb | aux |
| 29 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 last | parataxis |
| 30 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 29 climb | advmod |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 cat | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cat | det |
| 33 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 climb | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 come | cc |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 climb | conj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 come | advmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 hall | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hall | det |
| 40 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 come | obl |
| 41 | dripping | drip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 hall | acl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 water | case |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dripping | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 whirled | punct |
| 45 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 57 whirled | mark |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 57 whirled | mark |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 leaves | det |
| 48 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 leaves | amod |
| 49 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 whirled | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 strewed | nsubj |
| 51 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 strewed | aux:pass |
| 52 | strewed | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 53 | on | on | ADP | _ | 55 floor | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 floor | det |
| 55 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 strewed | obl |
| 56 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 whirled | aux:pass |
| 57 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 come | parataxis |
| 58 | round | round | ADV | _ | 57 whirled | advmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 carried | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 carried | cc |
| 61 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 57 whirled | conj |
| 62 | away | away | ADV | _ | 61 carried | advmod |
| 63 | by | by | ADP | _ | 65 streams | case |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 streams | det |
| 65 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 carried | obl |
| 66 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 67 flowed | nsubj |
| 67 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 65 streams | acl:relcl |
| 68 | from | from | ADP | _ | 69 her | case |
| 69 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 67 flowed | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Viking | Viking's frog nature; here | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dip | to-infinitive | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | dive | infinitive | in the water of the deep well; about property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in water=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | climb | would | Viking | like a cat; forth property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come back | infinitive | Viking not said here | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | drip | gerund | the hall not said here | with water | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with water=Theme | ||||
| 7 | strew | past · passive | the green leaves | the floor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on floor=Destination | ||||
| 8 | whirl | past · passive | the green leaves | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 9 | carry away | participle | by the streams; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | flow | past | the streams | from Viking | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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